November 16 Essence of Time unit in Donbass report (with map)

In the evening Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire on northern and south-western outskirts of Gorlovka by artillery and small arms.

Ukrainian military shelled Spartak village and area of Donetsk airport by artillery guns and mortars. A direct hit damaged a house on Kolkhoznaya street as a result of shelling of Veseloye village. Fortunately, nobody got hurt. At nightfall Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire by tank guns and mortars at area of the airport and Yasinovataya checkpoint. Residents of Kuybyshevsky and Kievsky districts heard sounds of trench combat from the northern direction.

Dokuchaevsk area south of the capital got hit by Ukrainian fire.

The enemy shelled Leninskoye and Sakhanka villages on Mariupol direction. Two houses were damaged in Sakhanka, on Mira street. Mortars, IFV guns, grenade launchers and small arms were fired. During the day the shelling of southern villages was periodically repeated.

DPR recon informed that one tank and six IFV arrived to the area of occupied Maryinka (Donetsk direction). Positions of six mortars and three D-30 howitzers were registered near Avdeevka (Donetsk direction) and Talakovka (Mariupol direction).

According to updated information, on November 15 Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire on frontline areas of the Republic 369 times, including 230 times by various artillery systems. Ukrainian military shelled Gorlovka, Vasilevka, Yasinovataya, Spartak, Trudovskie and Aleksandrovka near Donetsk, Dokuchaevsk and Signalnoye, Kominternovo, Leninskoye, Sakhanka and Bezymennoye in the south of DPR.